AppNexus

AppNexus is a technology company whose cloud-based software platform powers and optimizes the programmatic sale and purchase of digital advertising. Because our platform is open, customers are able to build and differentiate their technology on top of ours, making AppNexus the infrastructure through which a substantial portion of the world’s internet advertising flows. As an independent, pure-technology provider, we are fully aligned with our customers’ interests. Our core mission is to help our customers deliver the right ads at the right time to the right audience.

AlphaSense

AlphaSense provides a revolutionary search engine for knowledge professionals. Their clients include many of the world’s largest investment and advisory firms, global banks and corporations. The AlphaSense subscription service makes their clients dramatically more productive and allows them to discover critical data points and trends that others miss, providing them with an information edge. AlphaSense users can rapidly search and discover key data points, while also tracking impactful new information with intelligent alerts.

Invested in:

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Status:

ACTIVE

Series:

SERIES A

Sector:

AI & Machine Learning

Fintech

SaaS

Founders

Partners

News

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Backtrace

Backtrace, located in New York City, is dedicated to building the best debugging technology for today's native applications. Our flagship product is an advanced post-mortem debugging platform. Our team consists of a diverse group of engineers that have worked on all kinds of interesting problems.

BetterCloud

BetterCloud empowers IT to define, remediate, and enforce management and security policies for SaaS applications. Over 3,000 customers in 60+ countries rely on BetterCloud for continuous event monitoring, quickly remediating threats, and fully automating policy enforcement. BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with an engineering office in Atlanta, GA.

Clypd

Clypd is the advertising technology platform built exclusively for the television industry, empowering media owners with programmatic ad solutions. Founded in 2012, the company’s TV sales platform delivers workflow automation, data-enhanced decisioning and provides media partners with tools to manage their sales efforts. clypd’s innovations around programmatic television is opening doors for incremental digital budgets currently not available to the TV media owners. The clypd team is comprised of both TV and digital advertising experts, which uniquely positions the company to understand and meet the needs of the television industry while leveraging the best programmatic strategies from the digital world.

Cognical

Cognical uses world-class technology to build and deliver life-changing payment products at the point of need to help 65 million nonprime consumers acquire important goods in a convenient and cost-effective way. Cognical’s consumer product, Zibby, offers consumers a lease-purchase payment option in-store and as a payment button in the shopping carts of their favorite online stores. Zibby leverages its proprietary underwriting technology to boast the industry’s fastest application process, highest approval rates, and lowest loss rates.

CommonBond

CommonBond is a leading marketplace lender that lowers the cost of student loans for borrowers and provides financial returns to investors. Started by three Wharton MBAs with backgrounds in financial services, CommonBond delivers best-in-class student loan options with competitive pricing, a simple tech-enabled experience and exceptional customer service that is empowered to help borrowers. The company saves borrowers more than $14,000 on average, over the life of the loan. CommonBond is the first company to bring the "one-for-one" social model to finance: For every degree fully funded on the company's platform, CommonBond funds the education of a student in need for a full year, through a partnership with Pencils of Promise.

Partners

Cuebiq

Cuebiq is a leading location intelligence and consumer insights company leveraging the largest database of accurate and precise location data in the U.S. Its data intelligence platform analyzes anonymous location patterns to allow businesses to glean actionable insights and better understand the offline consumer journey. Cuebiq’s SaaS platform provides clients offline location analytics, real-time campaign optimization and footfall attribution, as well as geo-behavioral audiences for cross-platform ad targeting. Cuebiq is headquartered in New York with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Italy, and China.

Domio

Domio is a technology platform focused on the travel sector, encompassing real estate, hospitality, and design with an emphasis on social connections. We are starting with building branded upscale yet affordable apartment-hotels, focused on group travelers. Domio lives at the intersection of technology, real estate, and hospitality.

Invested in:

AUGUST 8, 2018

Status:

ACTIVE

Series:

SERIES A

Sector:

Marketplaces

Retail

Founders

Partners

News

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Eponym

Eponym is an online platform enabling brands to create and distribute prescription eyewear and sunglasses through their own stores. The company designs and builds high quality prescription eyewear in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

EscapeX

EscapeX is reshaping the way influencers (musicians, athletes, and celebrities) connect with their audiences. Before EscapeX, they had to share content with their audiences on a myriad of channels, creating a fragmented user experience. EscapeX’s platform connects audiences to influencers via self-branded apps, organizing their content and making it universally accessible.

Forever

Forever™ is the world’s first permanent digital storage and sharing service. It’s the place where people privately save, organize, and share their photos and precious memories for generations.
Thanks to the Forever Guarantee Fund, a conservatively managed fund designed to generate income and grow over time (like an endowment), Permanent Members can rest easy knowing their memories are preserved for their lifetime plus 100 years, guaranteed. Forever’s storage is triple backed-up. It also features bank-level encryption and an ironclad privacy policy. Driven by the belief that family stories should never be lost, Forever helps people connect and share in a secure, private environment.

Hive

Hive provides powerful team workflow software that brings actions, messages and file sharing onto one powerful dashboard. Integrating with over 100 popular SaaS tools, including Google Apps, Salesforce, Office 365 and WordPress, Hive allows teams to establish consistent automated processes. Hive works with leading brands including Pinterest, Deloitte, PwC, Uber, and HBO. Based in New York City and led by experts in collaboration software, Hive is transforming teamwork in the enterprise.

Jornaya

Jornaya is the consumer journey insight platform that provides marketers with the highest-resolution view of the consumer buying journey. It is the only technology platform that witnesses both the first- and third-party consumer interactions and enables marketers to shorten the distance between data and decision making. Jornaya seamlessly integrates with any consumer journey decisioning process, and its comprehensive AppMarketplace offers plug-and-play solutions for TCPA compliance, fraud detection, data validation, scoring, and more.

Invested in:

APRIL 1, 2014

Status:

ACTIVE

Series:

SERIES A

Sector:

Martech

Founders

Partners

Lendio

Lendio is a free online service that helps business owners find the right small business loans within minutes. The center of small business lending, our passion is fueling the American Dream by uniting the small business loan industry and bringing all options together in one place, from short-term specialty financing to long-term low-interest traditional loans. Our technology makes small business lending simple, decreasing the amount of time and effort it takes to secure funding.

Status:

ACTIVE

Sector:

Fintech

Marketplaces

Founders

Partners

Emergent Payments

Emergent Payments is the world’s first combined e-commerce and advertising platform, providing an advanced microtransaction engine, global payment gateways and engagement advertising platform to the world’s top entertainment companies.

Maxwell Health

Maxwell Health is a technology platform and innovative marketplace solution that makes benefits and HR simple. Maxwell automates benefits, human resources, and payroll for HR administrators, and its beautiful, modern experience makes it easy for employees to choose and use their benefits, helping them achieve better health and financial security. Leading benefits advisors and insurance carriers partner with Maxwell to deliver a state-of-the-art benefits and HR experience for small-to-mid-size employers and their employees.

Mobile Commons

Mobile Commons is a mobile strategy and software company that is the technology behind today’s most effective mobile messaging campaigns. Mobile Commons works with some of the biggest brands, government agencies, healthcare groups, and nonprofit organizations in the country, transforming the way that our society uses mobile to communicate.
Mobile Commons platform is a self-service, out-of-the-box solution for managing mobile and text messaging campaigns. Mobile Commons’ web-based dashboard makes it easy to get started with text messaging, while our feature list scales to meet the needs of the most sophisticated mobile marketers. Our customizable backend database integrates with the most popular 3rd-party CRM & email providers and can be easily extended with our API.
Acquired by Upland Software.

Status:

EXITED

Sector:

Edtech

Nifty Thrifty

NiftyThrifty is disrupting the $18B used clothing industry by delivering brilliantly curated collections of pre-owned and vintage clothing, at irresistible prices, to it’s members everyday.

Invested in:

AUGUST 1, 2012

Status:

EXITED

Series:

SERIES A

Sector:

Retail

Partners

Nimble TV

A new, pioneering cloud-based TV platform, is well positioned to become a game changer that redefines the TV viewing experience. It enables users for the first time to easily play their TV anywhere they choose and on any device. Nimble TV makes ‘choice’ and ‘television’ synonymous for the first time,
putting the medium squarely among emerging technological advancements that are increasingly giving consumers more and easier access to a broad range of content – in this case, content they are paying for.
Exited.

Invested in:

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Status:

EXITED

Series:

SERIES A

Sector:

Content and media

Partners

Ozobot

Ozobot provides kids and techies an expressive way to learn and play with robotics in a variety of social and interactive settings through their Ozobot robot. Ozobot teaches users code language, robotic behavior and deductive reasoning through play with their robot.

Porter Road

Delivering meat the way meat should be. Porter Road is an online butcher shop delivering fresh, never frozen meat. By sourcing from pastures in Kentucky and Tennessee, and dry aging and hand-cutting it all at our Nashville flagship, we’re setting a new standard for meat. After five years of serving our local community, we’re now delivering nationwide. Once you taste the difference, you’ll never go back.

Quantum Circuits

Quantum Circuits, Inc. (QCI) is a private venture founded in late 2015. QCI’s long-term goal is to develop, manufacture, and sell the first practical and useful quantum computers based on superconducting devices. Along the way to building a quantum computer, QCI will commercialize the components, devices, and software that will accelerate basic research and enable the scaling of quantum computing.

Invested in:

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Status:

ACTIVE

Series:

SERIES A

Sector:

Frontier Tech

Founders

Partners

Shopkeep

Everything ShopKeep does supports growing and independent businesses. Founded by a successful business owner, ShopKeep provides an intuitive, secure, iPad point-of-sale system with POS software that empowers merchants to run smarter businesses by optimizing staffing, regulating inventory and accessing sales reports and customer information on one seamless, cloud-based platform. With more than 20,000 customers, ShopKeep’s award-winning customer care team is available to help 24/7 and provide a robust support network for growing business owners. A member of Apple’s Mobile Partnership Program, ShopKeep is headquartered in New York, with offices in Portland, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Belfast.

Tentrr

Tentrr is an online marketplace that connects local landowners with anyone seeking to explore the great outdoors. Through a streamlined search and booking system, people with extra space can share their land and create remarkable experiences for a growing network of happy campers. Tentrr eliminates the stress of planning and executing a camping trip by providing insurance, customer support, and top quality equipment -- including the tent.

Thinkful

Thinkful is a new type of school that brings high-growth tech careers to ambitious people everywhere. The company provides 1-on-1 learning through its network of industry experts, hiring partners, and online platform to deliver a structured and flexible education. Thinkful offers programs in web development and data science, with in-person communities in up-and-coming tech hubs around the U.S. To join the Thinkful network visit thinkful.com.

Visibly

Visibly, creates digital eye care technologies that help the world see better. Its online vision test allows patients to renew their prescription anywhere, anytime. Visibly has issued hundreds of thousands of prescriptions with a 99.6% satisfaction rate. It also offers eye care providers, eyewear retailers, and other organizations customizable software solutions to enable a better patient and consumer experience.

Invested in:

JANUARY 1, 2014

Status:

ACTIVE

Series:

SEED

Sector:

Healthcare IT

SaaS

Founders

Partners

News

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Wonder

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